Director of International Programs University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign,, Illinois, United States
As online global learning becomes ubiquitous on university campuses, education abroad practitioners must ensure that the best practices developed for education abroad also infuse the practices on online global learning. Scaffolding, monitoring, reflection and evaluation are all important decolonizing practices in education abroad that are important in online global learning as well. This session encourages discussion around proposed best practices to ensure equitable online global learning.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion, participants will be able to identify colonial or imperial requests or behaviors in global online learning projects, recognizing the challenges of time zone alignment, project goal alignment, the digital divide, and other possible impediments to equitable participation by all partners including institutional and community partners globally. Participants will practice identifying cultural norms in responding to requests, as well as anticipating challenges to online participation in global contexts.
Upon completion, participants will be able to reframe global online learning activities to be reciprocal for partner institutions and partner communities. Challenges will be discussed with suggestions for mitigation included. Participants will practice identifying and mitigating colonial practices and assumptions within virtual global learning activities.
Participants will learn strategies to prepare students for decolonized online engagement with global partner institutions and communities. Possible challenges will be presented, and decolonizing strategies will be presented and practiced. Participants will learn to teach decolonized virtual engagement to students in preparation for online global learning.
